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mininamib said:
There is a petition going around to halt development in mid-town Oakville. Is there a way for us to counter-act it?

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Stopping Oakville Midtown development goal of community group's petition | insauga

A petition that opposes a planned development in Oakville, as well as the Province’s Bill 23 – More Homes Faster Act, 2022, is being circulated by a local citizens’ group. Proposed by the Oakville Community Association, the petition is expected to be presented to Town Council at the April 22...
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I suppose they'd like to see some nice big developments with huge density over in Downtown Oakville instead than.

Let them go cry us a river.
 
Distrikt Developments and the province have come out with their Transit Oriented Community plan that includes this development, 157 Cross Ave., 166 South Service Rd. E., and 590 Argus Rd. (the areas surrounded in red below). Note that this TOC is completely seperate from the Town's Midtown Official Plan Amendment, which will apply to all other developments in the area.
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Some background information about this, the Town of Oakville has been developing an Official Plan Amendment for the Midtown area for a few years now, but Distrikt Developments wanted to build much denser than what the OPA would allow. In June 2024, the province expressed interest in developing a Transit Oriented Community within the Midtown area in partnership with Distrikt Developments, that won't be subject to the Town's OPA. On November 14, Distrikt and the Province submitted their TOC plan to the town of Oakville, which you can view here: https://www.oakvilletoc.ca/
Infrastructure Ontario has pages for the TOC as well:
https://www.infrastructureontario.c...arch/oakville-toc-transit-oriented-community/
and
https://engageio.ca/en/oakville

The current TOC plan includes 11 buildings, ranging from 46-59 storeys in height for a total of 6920 residential units, 16,463 square meters of Retail/Office/Daycare space, and 7561 square meters of public open space.
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Regarding public engagement for the TOC, there will be a Virtual Engagement Session on December 10th, a survey will go live on December 10th, and there will be an in-person engagement session on December 12th.

On oakvilletoc.ca there are a bunch more documents about the TOC (environmental studies, landscape plans, architectural plans, etc.) near the bottom of the page.
 
KAR246 said:
Distrikt Developments and the province have come out with their Transit Oriented Community plan that includes this development, 157 Cross Ave., 166 South Service Rd. E., and 590 Argus Rd. (the areas surrounded in red below). Note that this TOC is completely seperate from the Town's Midtown Official Plan Amendment, which will apply to all other developments in the area.
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Some background information about this, the Town of Oakville has been developing an Official Plan Amendment for the Midtown area for a few years now, but Distrikt Developments wanted to build much denser than what the OPA would allow. In June 2024, the province expressed interest in developing a Transit Oriented Community within the Midtown area in partnership with Distrikt Developments, that won't be subject to the Town's OPA. On November 14, Distrikt and the Province submitted their TOC plan to the town of Oakville, which you can view here: https://www.oakvilletoc.ca/
Infrastructure Ontario has pages for the TOC as well:
https://www.infrastructureontario.c...arch/oakville-toc-transit-oriented-community/
and
https://engageio.ca/en/oakville

The current TOC plan includes 11 buildings, ranging from 46-59 storeys in height for a total of 6920 residential units, 16,463 square meters of Retail/Office/Daycare space, and 7561 square meters of public open space.
Tower1.png


Regarding public engagement for the TOC, there will be a Virtual Engagement Session on December 10th, a survey will go live on December 10th, and there will be an in-person engagement session on December 12th.

On oakvilletoc.ca there are a bunch more documents about the TOC (environmental studies, landscape plans, architectural plans, etc.) near the bottom of the page.
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Wowzers. That's a lot of density.
 
mininamib said:
Given Oakville's size of around 230,000 residents and still calling itself a "town" I think of someone who wears clothes a few sizes too small but still insists that they look dead sexy.
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Many Oakville residents live in their own deluded world thinking that they still live in a "town" to convince themselves that basically no condos should be built there. The level of NIMBY there is on a whole other scale.
 
Amare said:
Many Oakville residents live in their own deluded world thinking that they still live in a "town" to convince themselves that basically no condos should be built there. The level of NIMBY there is on a whole other scale.
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As an Oakvillian who has delegated at council regarding midtown and shown up to a consultation for Midtown, I can say that this is 100% true.

For example, many NIMBYs keep pushing for Midtown to be like Copenhagen with Copenhagen-style density, but when council was deciding on 4 as of right town-wide and 4 stories as of right around Sheridan College, guess who didn't want Copenhagen-style density anymore?
 
https://www.oakvillenews.org/local-news/text-doug-ford-residents-protest-tall-tower-toc-plan-9952381

Tons of opposition to the Transit Oriented Community by Oakville residents... I wonder how much the province is willing to concede in regards to the density here, if it all. I guess we will have to wait and see until an updated proposal.

Also, the database entry for this and the other developments in the TOC should be updated and added under an Oakville TOC master project. Not sure who to @ for that...
 
KAR246 said:
https://www.oakvillenews.org/local-news/text-doug-ford-residents-protest-tall-tower-toc-plan-9952381

Tons of opposition to the Transit Oriented Community by Oakville residents... I wonder how much the province is willing to concede in regards to the density here, if it all. I guess we will have to wait and see until an updated proposal.

Also, the database entry for this and the other developments in the TOC should be updated and added under an Oakville TOC master project. Not sure who to @ for that...
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This is exactly what I was alluding to earlier by the levels of NIMBYism in Oakville. It's almost unrivaled, and this is just the start of it.

Sorry Oakville time to grow up; Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton and the rest of the surrounding GTA have been more than pulling their own weight when it comes to absorbing population growth.
 
"Sorry Oakville time to grow up; Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton and the rest of the surrounding GTA have been more than pulling their own weight when it comes to absorbing population growth."

Toronto's population increase was 2.3% during the last census, Mississauga's population decreased by .5%. Oakville's went up by 10.3 in five years. It's gone up another 10% in only 3 years. Overcapacity schools, overcapacity hospital and very poor shopping just to name a few things. You can't live in a condo in that location and go anywhere else in town without a car. You can't go to Coronation Park. You can't go to Gairloch Gardens. You're basically a prisoner. If I wanted to live in a tall condo I would go to Toronto where I could walk to stuff and where there was a subway.
 
detalumis said:
"Sorry Oakville time to grow up; Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton and the rest of the surrounding GTA have been more than pulling their own weight when it comes to absorbing population growth."

Toronto's population increase was 2.3% during the last census, Mississauga's population decreased by .5%. Oakville's went up by 10.3 in five years. It's gone up another 10% in only 3 years. Overcapacity schools, overcapacity hospital and very poor shopping just to name a few things. You can't live in a condo in that location and go anywhere else in town without a car. You can't go to Coronation Park. You can't go to Gairloch Gardens. You're basically a prisoner. If I wanted to live in a tall condo I would go to Toronto where I could walk to stuff and where there was a subway.
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I mean you have heard of this concept of public transportation, right? The Town actually offers something called a *bus* to get people places.

Also, somehow I suspect Gairloch Gardens is particularly high on most people’s “priority” list of activities to base lifestyle decisions around.
 
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